Welcome back to this bi-weekly meeting of the South Platte River Committee of Denver City Council.

Join us for the discussion as the South Platte River Committee starts now.

Good afternoon.

Welcome everyone.

You are at the South Platte River Committee, and today is uh October 28th.

Um, thank you for joining us.

We have one uh rezoning on the agenda today.

Uh before we go into that agenda, let's do introductions and I'll start with our loan councilman on my left.

On my own.

Uh Darrell Watson,

Fine District

9.7.

Reverend Flynn, South West Members District 2.

Chris Hines Denver is

perfect time.

Um I'm Jamie Torres, I represent West Denver District 3.

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Um if any folks join on, we will introduce them at that time.

Um, thank you for being with us.

Um, we will turn the um agenda over to

you.

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Um,

good afternoon, members of committee.

Uh, my name is Fran Peña Fiel, I'm a principal city planner uh with community planning and development, and today I have a fun rezoning for you that it's in 515 West Mississippi Avenue, 1050 South Fox Street, and 500 West Tennessee Avenue.

We're gonna go as always over the request, the location and context.

We're gonna look quickly at the process and finally uh look at the review criteria.

This is an applicant-driven request to rezone approximately 3.4 acres from AI UO2 zoning into IMX 5 with a waiver.

This waiver promotes industrial manufacturing and wholesale uses for a portion of the frontage at the street level.

And we're gonna look in more detail at that waiver once we get there.

Uh

for a little bit of background, um, the applicant first submitted an application back in 2024.

At that time, we worked with the applicant and we asked him to get involved with the uh South West Area Plan.

Um, so we asked him to pause the application, and he posed for two years and then came back and submitted uh an application with the waiver following the plan guidance.

So

let's look at the location and context.

The subject properties are located in Council District 7, represented by our council member Alvidres.

And the site is located in the Atmar Park neighborhood.

You can see it there in the lower corner, lower right corner.

The

current zoning for the property is IAUO2, which is a light industrial district with a billboard use overlay.

It is mostly surrounded by other light industrial zoning, OSA to the north, that's open space.

Um in Vanderbilt Park, IMX 5 to the northwest and OSC on the Platte River to the east.

The applicant is requesting to rezone to IMX 5 with waivers, which stands for Industrial Neighborhood Context Mixed Use 5 Stories Maximum Height.

IMX5 applies to industrially dominated areas served by local or collector streets with a maximum building height of five stories.

The

mixed-use zone district accommodates a variety of industrial, commercial, civic, and residential uses and encourages affordable housing.

Now the waivers.

The

second and the third part of the waiver are just also reinforcing the first part.

It's like saying that the townhouse building form is allowed, but also only in uh within 125 feet of the primary street on 50% of the width of the lot.

And then the zone lot designations is the same.

We're saying that at least let's say this development in right now, at least they would have to have South Platte River Drive and West Mississippi as primary streets.

Now, if they decide to do a sun load amendment and subdivide in multiple lots, then they're gonna have to come here and we're gonna have to decide which ones are going to be the primary streets.

Again, making sure that we have some of this industrial at least in a section of the site.

So it could end up being just an industrial building at the corner, for example, of South Platte River and Mississippi, and then the rest of the site could be residential, that would work, like it doesn't necessarily mean that it needs to be mixed, but it could

be.

Okay, so moving on to be clear, yeah.

I have here like the intent of the waiver is to stay consistent with the plan guidance of the site and promote industrial manufacturing and wholesale uses at the street level by limiting other primary accessory and temporary uses for a portion of the building.